Ford resignation letter dodges guilty plea, cites ‘antagonistic environment’
“Through my service on the Board, I have become the true outlier in this antagonistic environment which no longer focuses on serving constituents,” Edmund Ford Jr. (middle) said in his resignation letter to the Shelby County Board of Commissioners. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Ford filed a resignation letter to the Shelby County Commission, as required by his guilty plea to federal tax-evasion charges. Meanwhile, county commissioners have a timetable for filling the vacancy.
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